The utility sar is part of the sysstat package. Note the double ‘s’. Most articles/documentation state that the jobs should be run using cron. On Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 this no longer works, the utilities work, but the historical database is not collected nor stored. These systems require that systemd run the collector.
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Shane
I just seen the film again, and must reread the book. I am surprised at some reviews, as I consider the sexual/romantic tension between Marion and Shane underplayed, I feel because of its time, I feel that Shane’s past and his desire to leave it behind is also underplayed. Not that I need to see…
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A living wage
It’s conference time for the GMB, and prompted by some members I looked at the state of policy development on low pay and the living wage. The GMB Policy is stated in its policy guide albeit dated 2021. I look at Labour’s “A new deal for working people” and note that the GMB’s minimum wage…
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Linux Performance Monitoring
Today, sar, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat.
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Rights at work & GMB 2023
I collected these resources when considering motions for GMB 2023.
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The people’s flag is palest pink
Kier Starmer kicked off the new year, with a rousing speech calling the masses to the barricades. Or something like that! Here are my notes. …
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TCL Argument processing
You’d think TCL argument processing has been done and would be easy to find. But not for me. Here are my notes,
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Can I auto-post to Disqus?
Here are my notes, although this may not be what I want, threads are only started by making Disqus the comment system for the blog. …
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A bonfire of worker’s rights
Not content with making it impossible to “go and live there” if we don’t like Brexit, the Tories are planning to repeal all the EU derived legislation. The Bill is called the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022-23. It is understood to threaten most already inadequate worker’s rights including holiday pay, working hours…
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On the WOTC OGL
At the turn of the years 2022/23 Wizards of the Coast shocked their 3rd party creator community by proposing to revoke their open licence and charge royalties on successful derived content. I created this page to track the events and comments made and posted a blog article, On WOTCs permissive licences, also mirrored on medium….
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Fish Recipes
Why is it so hard to find good fish recipes? I need to eat more, here are my notes. …
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On CoFoE
Over the last 18 months I have working with CTOE, their focus has been on using the Conference on the Future of Europe to further democratic reform of the EU. CTOE has been influenced and supports the work of direct democracy campaigners. I made this page at the end of 2022 to expose some of…
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Imagemagick
I am playing with the Introduction Theme for Hugo and needed to see if I could change the pictures used to decorate it. I didn’t want to learn how to use GIMP anymore than I already do so I installed imagemagick. This article links to three articles that talk about greyscale, lightening and resizing and…
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Zenity
While writing my error warning routines, I was pointed at zenity. Here are my notes …
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New Britain, new britcon
Gordon Brown’s Commission on the constitution of the UK has finished its report. Much of the press focus on the proposal to abolish/reform the House of Lords but it is much more thorough than that. I wonder if in its way its as ambitious as the Chilean constitution that failed earlier this year. I feel…
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